List of Tampa Bay Lightning head coaches

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The Lightning have played their home games at Amalie Arena since 1996.

The Tampa Bay Lightning are an American professional ice hockey team based in Tampa, Florida. They play in the Atlantic Division of the Eastern Conference in the National Hockey League (NHL). Often referred to as the Bolts, [1] the team joined the NHL in 1992 as an expansion team, and have won the Stanley Cup championship in 2004, 2020 and 2021. [2] Having first played in the Expo Hall, [3] and later in the ThunderDome (now known as Tropicana Field), [4] the Lightning have played their home games at the Ice Palace, currently titled Amalie Arena, since 1996. The Lightning are owned by Jeffrey Vinik, Julien BriseBois is their general manager, and Steven Stamkos is the team captain.

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There have been nine  head coaches for the Lightning franchise. The team's first head coach was Terry Crisp, who coached for five seasons. John Tortorella, the only American to head coach the team, was the first Lightning coach to have won the Prince of Wales Trophy, [5] the Stanley Cup, [2] and to have been awarded the Jack Adams Award, all of which happened in the 2003–04 season. Steve Ludzik and Jon Cooper are the only two head coaches who have spent their entire NHL head coaching careers with the Lightning.

Jon Cooper is the team's current head coach, having been named to the position on March 25, 2013. [6] Cooper is the only head coach of the Lightning to win the Prince of Wales Trophy four times. [7] Under Cooper, the franchise won its second Stanley Cup championship in 2020 and third championship in 2021. Cooper is the franchise's all-time leader for the most regular season wins (480), playoff games coached (139), and the most playoff-games won (84).

Key

#Number of coaches [a]
GCGames coached
WWins = 2 points
LLosses = 0 points
TTies = 1 point
OT Overtime/shootout losses = 1 point [b]
PTS Points
Win% Winning percentage
*Spent entire NHL head coaching career with the Lightning

Coaches

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Jon Cooper has been head coach since 2013

Note: Statistics are correct through the end of the 2023–24 NHL season.

Head coaches of the Tampa Bay Lightning
#NameTerm [c] Regular seasonPlayoffsAchievementsReference
GCWLT/OTPTSPTS%GCWLWin%
1 Terry Crisp 1992–1998 39114220445329.421624.333 [8]
2 Rick Paterson* 1998 60600.000———— [9]
3 Jacques Demers 1998–1999 14734961785.289———— [10]
4 Steve Ludzik* 1999–2001 12131672385.351———— [11]
5 John Tortorella 2001–2008 53523922274552.516452421.533 Stanley Cup championship: 2004 [2]
Jack Adams Award winner: 2003–04 [12]
Prince of Wales Trophy winner: 2004 [5] 		[13]
6 Barry Melrose 2008 1657414.438———— [14]
7 Rick Tocchet 2008–2010 148536926132.446———— [15]
8 Guy Boucher 2010–2013 196977920214.54618117.611 [16]
9 Jon Cooper* 2013–present879525279751,125.6401508763.580 NHL All-Star Game: 2018, 2019 [17] [18]
Presidents' Trophy winner: 2018–19 [19]
Stanley Cup championship: 2020, 2021
Prince of Wales Trophy winner: 2015, 2020, 2021, 2022 [20] 		[21]

Notes

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